BS: stuff heard round the thanksgiving table

Subject: RE: BS: stuff heard round the thanksgiving table
From: open mike
Date: 23 Nov 09 - 10:22 PM

where do you vegetarians get your protein?
here is double yodel...by berrymans...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-OpC8OVoPE

Subject: RE: BS: stuff heard round the thanksgiving table
From: Amos
Date: 23 Nov 09 - 08:25 PM

For the futility of exercise and the doom of avoirdupois Good Lord, we thank you.


A

Subject: RE: BS: stuff heard round the thanksgiving table
From: Ebbie
Date: 23 Nov 09 - 07:04 PM

Yes, I met Judy and Dennis at a Getaway - plus they came to Juneau several years back and we got to hear them again. I didn't hear them do the Double Yodel- I would have loved to.

I haven't heard it from the Berrymans either, but from two of our Friday night musicians, Kathy Hocker and Michael Truax.

Subject: RE: BS: stuff heard round the thanksgiving table
From: Bill D
Date: 23 Nov 09 - 05:25 PM

Our own Dennis & Judy Cook, who you might have met at a Getaway, Ebbie, learned the double-yodel a few years ago, and it IS a great piece! I have NOT heard the Berrymans do it.

Subject: RE: BS: stuff heard round the thanksgiving table
From: Ebbie
Date: 23 Nov 09 - 11:02 AM

Our little (12-15 people) Friday night music group is eclectic; our music ranges from Dylan to Winchester to blues to gospel to folk to Indigo Girls to U2 to the Rolling Stones to the Berrymans and back by way of dozens of others.

Has anyone heard Lou and Peter Berryman's song, the Double Yodel? I heard it at music the other night and practically rolled on the floor with laughter.

Subject: RE: BS: stuff heard round the thanksgiving table
From: jacqui.c
Date: 23 Nov 09 - 09:45 AM

Nice one Ebbie!

Subject: RE: BS: stuff heard round the thanksgiving table
From: Charley Noble
Date: 23 Nov 09 - 09:24 AM

Ebbie-

Indeed, the ultimate Thanksgiving song!

Mother always puts in her reservation early for "the Pope's Nose."

Maybe this year we'll rename it "Palin's Nose."

Gobble, gobble,
Charley Nobble

Subject: Lyr Add: UNCLE DAVE'S GRACE (Berryman)
From: Ebbie
Date: 22 Nov 09 - 06:45 PM

UNCLE DAVE'S GRACE
lyrics by Peter Berryman, music by Lou Berryman
on their House Concert CD (www.louandpeter.com?)

Thanksgiving day, Uncle Dave was our guest
He reads the Progressive which makes him depressed
We asked Uncle Dave if he'd like to say grace,
A dark desolation crept over his face
"Thanks," he began as he gazed at his knife,
"To poor Mr. Turkey for living his life
All crowded and cramped in a great metal shed
Where life was a drag then they cut off his head"

"Thanks," he went on, "for the grapes in my wine
Picked by sick women of seventy-nine
Scrambling all morning for bunch after bunch
Then brushing the pesticides off of their lunch
Thanks for the stuffing all heaped on my fork
Shiny with sausage descended from pork
I think of the trucks full of full of pigs that I see
And can't help imagine what they think of me"

Continuing, "I'd like to thank if you please
Our salad bowl hacked out of tropical trees
And for this mahogany table and chair
I thank all the jungles that used to be there
For cream in our coffee and milk in our mugs,
We thank all the cows full of hormones and drugs
Whose calves are removed at a very young age
And force-fed as veal in a minuscule cage"

"Oh thanks for the furnace that heats up these rooms
And thanks for the rich fossil fuel it consumes
Corrupting the atmosphere ounce after ounce
But we're warm and toasty and that is what counts
I'm grateful," he said, "for these clothes on my back
Lovely and comfy and cheap off the rack
Fashioned in warehouses noisy and cold
In China by seamstresses seven years old"

"And thanks for my silverware setting that shines
In memory of miners who died in the mines
Worn down by the shoveling of tailings in piles
Whose runoff destroys all the rivers for miles
We thank the reactors for our chandelier
Although the plutonium won't disappear
For hundreds of decades, it still will be there
But a few more Chernobyls and who's gonna care?"

Sighed Uncle Dave, "though there's more to be told
The wine's getting warm and the bird's getting cold"
And with that, he sat down as he mumbled again
"Thank you for everything, amen"
We felt so guilty when he was all through
It seemed there was one of two things we could do
Live without food, in the nude, in a cave,
Or next year have someone say grace besides Dave.

Subject: RE: BS: stuff heard round the thanksgiving table
From: Maryrrf
Date: 22 Nov 09 - 06:33 PM

I'm very fond of both fruitcake and eggnog - and it's also the season for my favorite pie - pumpkin!

Subject: RE: BS: stuff heard round the thanksgiving table
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 22 Nov 09 - 06:02 PM

The key is GOOD fruit cake -- home made or good quality mostly fruit and nuts store bought fruit cake. (The traditional brandy or other booze soaking is a pretty good idea, too.)

Additionally, it's the start of the EGGNOG season! (Yeah, I know. It's in the store year round and I can make it, too, but my WAISTLINE requires that it be kept to Thanksgiving to New Years...Old Christmas...Robert Burns' birthday...)

Looking forward to Thanksgiving.

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: stuff heard round the thanksgiving table
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 22 Nov 09 - 06:57 AM

Alice! Come to dinner with us!

(I love fruitcake- but no walnuts, please!)


Somehow, due to the changes and chances of this mortal life, no two Thanksgivings ever seem to be the same. Every other year I have my two kids and my mom and her partner, but on the alternate years it's anyone's guess what will happen or where. Last year was a pot-luck buffet in Clinton, GA with a stream of cousins I'd never met; this year we bless this house we've built with the usual gang and anyone else we can invite over (Alice? I know it's a stretch, but you're welcome to come!). So, sorry to say, the script never seems to be very similar from year to year.

Allison

Subject: RE: BS: stuff heard round the thanksgiving table
From: KT
Date: 22 Nov 09 - 12:53 AM

Who wants to make the gravy?
Do you like your mashed potatoes smooth or lumpy?
Where's the electric knife?
What!? No green bean casserole?
The bird's in the oven. Let's go for a walk.

Subject: RE: BS: stuff heard round the thanksgiving table
From: katlaughing
Date: 21 Nov 09 - 11:05 PM

Great list, Donuel!

Subject: RE: BS: stuff heard round the thanksgiving table
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 21 Nov 09 - 09:50 PM

I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one who enjoys a good fruitcake!

Subject: RE: BS: stuff heard round the thanksgiving table
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Nov 09 - 09:23 PM

Then comon by and meet the Bickerson's the Hackmens the Youngs and the Esterhazies.

PS bring a fruitcake

Subject: RE: BS: stuff heard round the thanksgiving table
From: Alice
Date: 21 Nov 09 - 06:57 PM

*crickets*
Alone this thanksgiving, same as last year.

Subject: BS: stuff heard round the thanksgiving table
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Nov 09 - 06:49 PM

"Where did all the potatoes go?"
Did you get both flu shots this year dear?
"Its not Thanks giving without Yams"
Have you thought of getting him evaluated?
"you know I don't eat meat"
Still out of work Bob, how long has it been?
"What's this crap in my dressing?"
I'm so glad you didn't clean house for us.
"No thanks we ate on the way"
Mommy there are people in the coat bed!
"Is this rug synthetic?"
I don't know how she puts up with him.
"I don't know how he puts up with her."
Mmmm was the turkey a Butterball?
"so the fryer exploded and the turkey went over the garage."
This is our third thanksgiving dinner because, well you know.
"Cranberry jello anyone, anyone?"
I'll go see if the liquor store is still open.
"No Joe, I didn't read her book yet, no no you keep yours."
I'll be happy to get your good dishes out if you tell me where they are.
"Cranberry Tofu anyone, anyone?"
Where'd the shrimp go Uncle Ted?
"You don't need a meat thermometer, we'll wing it."
The Lions are still behind
"Ta Daa, its fruitcake time!!"





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